Maxtor HD not assigned drive letter using USB port

[John Campbell]

I have a Dell CPIx laptop (PIII, W2K, SP4)with a 30Gb
Maxtor 6E030L0 HD attached via USB. The USB mass storage
device and the HD show up in Computer Management as
attached devices, but no drive letter is assigned to the
HD. The drive is valid, formatted and partitioned in
NTFS. I had replaced the USB drives and now have the
latest service pack loaded.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

I had replaced the USB drives and now have the
latest service pack loaded.

Unless there's something in this service pack that you absolutely have to
have, try backing out to the previous level - it worked didn't it?

HTH

 

[Ahmed Ilyas]

Personally, I HATE MAXTOR!



Go for Western Digital

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

The HD had the same problem with SP3. I was hoping to
solve the problem with SP4, but no change. I had a typo
below when I said I replaced the drives, I meant drivers,
but that was pre-SP4 and also made no difference.

Ouch!

OK, AFAIK, replacing drivers in W2K is not always a simple exercise. IIRC,
someone said that you have to uninstall the old ones, install the new ones,
reboot, edit the registry to ensure no stray references to the old drivers
are left, delete or rename the old drivers, and so on, And not necessarily in
that order. :-( I'm sorry, I can't help you, I've not had your problems. Hope
someone else can.